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- Movie: Heat Shimmer Theater
- Romaji: Kagero-za
- Japanese: 陽炎座,
- Director: Seijun Suzuki
- Writer: Kyoka Izumi (novel)
- Producer: Yutaka Okada
- Cinematographer: Kazue Nagatsuka
- Release Date: July 31, 1981
- Runtime: 139 min.
- Language: Japanese
- Country: Japan
-Plot
Again, the setting is the 1920s Japan of the Taisho area, and again a literary work is the source for the screenplay. In this case, the basis is a short story by Kyoka Izumi, a writer most famous now for his idiosyncratic Gothic-flavoured ghost stories, published in the main in the early years of the twentieth century. From this has been fashioned a screenplay which rather resists any attempt at a synopsis—or is it Suzuki’s treatment that deliberately muddies the waters of character and narrative consistency?
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